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Friday, August 28, 2009

A Chip Card on His Shoulder

I watched yesterday in Amsterdam as the city's transportation network switched only to accepting chipcards on public transportation. By the end of the day the new cards weren't working on many of the city buses, despite the enthusiasm for the new devices expressed by young workers in costume promoting the change-over.